Top 125 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Rudd - Page 2

I grew up in a lot of different places, mostly in Kansas, I really started thinking seriously about acting in high school; I just did it better than most of the other activities in school.

I hated 'Top Gun.'

I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical.

Comedy-wise, I think Chris Elliott is one of the funniest people.

Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life.

Sometimes you read a script, and it's like, 'You'll improv, and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be,' and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really.

I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with.

Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms.

I used to love, love Steve Martin. I still do... I would get these albums, and I would just listen to them all the time. I would stand in my room and pretend that I was delivering his comedy routine... And I don't know if that planted any kind of seed, but I wasn't raised going to the theatre.

I used to live next door to a farm, so every day for awhile, I used to walk over and fed the cows, when I was in school. This was weird because I lived in sort of a subdivision, but this one holdout in our neighborhood in Kansas still had a farm.

To try and sustain a performance is always a challenge. Anything you work on, to try and be real and show up and not look as if I'm playing pat to anything is always work.

I was never much into knights and sorcery and that kind of thing. It's not because I was into anything cooler. I certainly wasn't. I played with LEGOs. I played with LEGOs way past when most people played with LEGOs.

Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.

My wife is very stealth-funny. She'll come out with something when I'm not expecting it, and it'll just kill me.

I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake.

As a kid, I know that most of my parents' friends were because my mom made friends with them, and my dad went along. I know a lot of dads who do that. I think it just starts to happen with guys. In the case of my father, he was probably just too busy reading books about Titanic.

Growing up, if I had been given any advice - bad or good - I probably wouldn't have been able to act on it regardless. I wasn't shy, but I'd get nervous. I got a little more confident later in high school when I realized I could get girls to pay attention to me by making them laugh.

I can talk about sports and stuff, but I have a season pass for 'Antiques Roadshow' on my TiVo.

Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris - they're both genius.

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

A lot of people say, 'What's the worst part about being an actor?' And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

I find many of the people that I've worked with to be incredibly funny.

There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.

Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it.

I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously.

I'm a big fan of not working.

Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work.

My parents raised me to treat people the way you would want to be treated and to be polite. Sometimes, when I get nervous or insecure, I might overcompensate and might not be totally true to what I am feeling inside. But I get nervous and maybe too smiley and polite.

I've always loved David Letterman. There was an irreverence to his show that I remember, especially in 'Late Night' - it always seemed so fresh.

'Ant-Man' was a genre, I guess, that I hadn't really tackled before.

To me, some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise, some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.

I grew up in the Midwest, where people seem to be friendly and nice to one another. There is less stress than in some of the other cities.

I went to college and studied theater; I went to a theater conservatory. I live in New York because I wanted to do plays and still do plays.

It's nice to be in anything that anybody sees or likes. If it's something that has lasted, it's great.

All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel.

There are so many really good comedians, and I would never be as good as they are. It's not my calling.

I'm not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood.

I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing.

It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way.

What's weird is that anybody can write anything, and once it goes online, it's permanent. My very first biography on IMDb, which was written by a manager I had at the time, was not true.

Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy.

The truth is, there are so many terrific places in New York because it's the greatest city in the world, and there are so many fascinating places to see that, frankly, it's humbling.

My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.

People do still mention 'Clueless' to me. I'm proud and happy that I was in it.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

Who knows what critics are thinking? I know that you make more of a name for yourself, make more of an interesting review, if you're kind of mean-spirited.

'Divorce Court' is a great show.

Alex Smith is - I think he is a winner, and he's a smart quarterback, and I'm a fan of his.

I love attempting to play real people. I like to try and have dramatic moments as well as comedic moments, and my favorite thing is when those two lines are blurred.

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.

Sometimes you read a script and it's like, "You'll improv and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be," and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really.

Oh, the weather outside is weather.

Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process.

We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too.

Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

A lot of people say, "What's the worst part about being an actor?" And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.

Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.